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There were many weapons used in the crusades, and on this page you will find a multitude of them. If any of the interest you, you can try searching more about it!
The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows). Humans used bows and arrows for hunting and aggression long before recorded history, and the practice was common to many prehistoric cultures. They were important weapons of war from ancient history until the early modern period, where they were rendered increasingly obsolete by the development of the more powerful and accurate firearms.
A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter blade with a pointed tip. A slashing sword is more likely to be curved and to have a sharpened cutting edge on one or both sides of the blade. Many swords are designed for both thrusting and slashing. However, the precise definition of a sword varies by historical epoch and geographic region.
The Curved sword, or Slashing sword, was used by Muslims in all of the crusades, and was one of their only weapons seeing as they lacked any armour. despite that they still managed to retake Jerusalem and fend off the crusaders multiple times.
A halberd (also called halbard, halbert or Swiss voulge) is a two-handed spear that came to prominent use from the 13th to 16th centuries. The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It can have a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants. The halberd was usually 1.5 to 1.8 metres (5 to 6 feet) long. (Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halberd Wikipedia)
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